It's 8:40pm and the guy next door finally stopped mowing...

[TreasonousBastard]

I hope he's not just taking a break.

But, now I can hear the bikers again.

This town has been sold for years as quiet country living. It can be if you don't live on the main road

[rurallib]

1. I hate the sound of lawn mowers

especially on Sunday morning

[samnsara]

7. i mowed mine at 7 am sunday..battery power

[rurallib]

8. My SIL has a battery powered rider - I am so jealous

[I_UndergroundPanther]

16. Ever notice

When one lawn mower starts up in minutes all the others start up too.

I hate lawns and the mowers.

[PoliticAverse]

2. Be happy they usually don't have headlights on lawnmowers. n/t

[Diamond_Dog]

3. We often seem to get that one loud motorcycle

going past the house at 3 am.

[applegrove]

4. I took my dad out in the nursing home garden to have a covid visit with his sister a month ago.

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The city crew of three were mowing and weed wacking away. I thought to myself this does not bode well. Dad had not had a conversation with his sister in more than a year. Dad can't hear at the best of times. They cleared out after 10 minutes. We were lucky. We had 20 minutes of quiet to visit.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. I had an electric weed whacker once. Almost silent and...

battery would last about 20 minutes.

[applegrove]

12. I had one once. Consisted of me on my hands and knees cutting the edge

of the front lawn with scissors because the weed wacker was dead. I think it was my sister's wedding or something important. Weed wackers are much more efficient.

[samnsara]

6. the scent of fresh cut lawn on a hot summer night...

[TreasonousBastard]

9. I know, but his grass smells like cat shit.

[dawg day]

10. My neighbor waits until I come to sit out on the porch...

Then he starts mowing. Passive aggressive neighbors.

[Marthe48]

11. My sympathy to you

My neighborhood used to be quiet, but it is worse and worse every year. Three of the people near me have huge lawns and they never mow at the same time. I think there is a rule they must each mow at different times.

I live at the base of a hill on a dead end road, with maybe 4 houses past me, and with all of the traffic, I think there must be a hidden city up there. If I ever hit the lottery, I'm buying every person on the street a muffler. The fireworks started over the weekend. Like I said, you have my sympathy.

[jcgoldie]

13. I had the cops called on me last week for bailing hay after dark

Theres two sides to everything I guess. I have a couple of fields closer to town that I bail for a split. There are some condos on the other side of a row of trees but a few hundred yards away. I had to get it rolled up before rain overnight or the entire mess would be ruined. So I was out there at 10:30 at night finishing up when police came, "What are you doing?"... "Uhm bailing hay. *points to hay on the ground and bails in field as evidence*... "Can you do that tomorrow please?"... "Uhm no its going to rain tonight."... awkward silence... then I got back on the tractor and re-commenced and they stood there a few minutes then left.

[marble falls]

15. The expectations of city folks moved to the country ...

... let alone that fields were there before the condos were, you only might do this no more than four or five times a year.

I lived in Nebraska and I knew a city couple from Sioux City, who bought a nice new house very cheaply, one winter. In the summer, they tried to get the neighboring hog confinement shutdown as a nuisance.

The confinement was there for many decades before the original builder put up the house, and he thought they'd be able to take the neighboring farm with air conditioning. They lasted three or four years.

[pnwest]

14. Funny, nothing says summer to me more than the

sound of a couple of loud hogs rolling down the road and a lawnmower off in the distance. One man’s trash…

[Archae]

17. It's gotten worse here by my place in the past few years.

In summer, the hot rodders, big Harleys, trucks and Japanese rice rockets go roaring past my place, since the roundabout was put in about half a block away.

In winter, hardly any loud cars and such, and everything is closed up.

But in summer if it's not yet warm or muggy enough to put on the A/C, I keep the front door open, and rodders and such go tearing past my place, even though the speed limit is 25.
Every so often I see some jackass after they get caught speeding, with loud engines of course.

As to mowers, oh yes. I live on a hill above a residential street where I don't think anyone has an electric mower.

Particularly one of my neighbors who has one of those big "zero turn" mowers.

Fortunately they mostly mow during the late morning or afternoon.

[TreasonousBastard]

18. The unanswered question I always ask is why my 1400cc car engine is whisper quiet but...

Harleys and leafblowers have to make insane amounts of noise?

I'm at the edge of town and the limit is 25 here, although no one seems to care. I'm also on a curve-- close to a 90 deg turn. I understand the thrill of taking the curve at speed and the "need" to shift at critical points but NO! Your Mustang is not really that fast, so no amount of exhaust noise will fake speed. And don't tell me your bike has to make noise so pedestrians will know it's coming.

At about 11:30 tonight I heard 10 seconds of screeching brakes and a loud "THUMP". Nobody got hurt, but all the airbags went off and there was a fine tree-shaped dent in the side of a Nissan.

Can't even read in peace and listen to the peepers in the dead of night.

[whistler162]

19. He will start weed whacking at 4 AM

[Tracer]

20. The people behind me hire landscapers to cut their lawn.

They do have a pretty big yard, but the problem is the machinery the landscapers use.

The mowers are HUGE. The mower guy stands up at the back of a 3-rank set of blades and the noise is incredibly loud and the cutting seems to last hours.

And when they are done with mowing, they get out the industrial-sized trimmers and go after the weeds at the base of the fence (which in one spot is only 20' from my house).